Update: This 'Scandalous' Never-Before-Seen Photo Of Princess Diana Just Sold For $18K

RR AuctionAn unidentified man reads a book on the late Diana Spencer when she was just 18-years-old on a ski vacation.

Update: This rare photo of a young Princess Diana on a ski trip sold Thursday in an online auction to a real estate investor from San Diego for $18,306 — well above early estimates, according to the AP.

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This story was initially published on 1/4/13

Apparently lounging on a male friend next to a bottle of Johnnie Walker pre-1980 is today equivalent to a nude photo scandal.

The photo, which is marked with the words "Not to be published" handwritten on the front, was purchased by Britain's Daily Mirror on February 26, 1981 – just two days after the then-Diana Spencer was engaged to Prince Charles.

The photo, featuring an 18 or 19-year-old Diana with an unidentified man on a Swiss ski holiday, was kept hidden in the paper's archives until it was purchased seven years ago by the private Caren Archive.

"This would certainly not be in the way the Royal Family would have Diana to have been presented," said Eric Caren, owner of the Caren Archive, to the Daily Mail.

It is now set for auction by RR Auctions in New Hampshire, and is being described as an 8x10 "salacious teenage image of the future princess."